Some L&D Articles / Blog Posts that You Might Have Missed this Week

Hey everyone. Hope you have a great weekend! With that said, here are 4 articles from this week: mLearnCon 2013 Opens in San Jose (Learning Solutions Magazine) – A comprehensive summary of all the happenings, keynotes, sessions and news and analysis from one of the year’s biggest conferences on all things mobile learning. They Don’t Know

Three Challenges With Training a Mobile Sales Team

This is a guestpost by Laura Martin, Vice President of Marketing at Axonify.   Three Challenges With Training a Mobile Sales Team Hot off the heels of mLearnCon 2013, we decided to write about an area of training that could greatly benefit from mobile applications. That area is sales training. More specifically, training a sales team

5 Myths About Employee Engagement and 12 Tips for Truly Motivated Staff

Motivating staff is a very timely topic for managers and directors of organizations. While recognizing the importance of this topic, there exist some misconceptions or myths regarding personnel’s motivation. Here are the 5 most common myths regarding employee motivation: Myth no. 1 – “I can motivate people” Actually, this is not completely true. Employees must

How to Hit the Ground Running After Employee Training

A common scenario relating to performance proficiency : John just completed 3 days of training on using Salesforce in the enterprise software company he started working at a week ago. John’s manager Amanda expects him to hit the ground running and begin showing results quickly, but is also aware of the well-quoted statistic that on average,

3 Staff Training and Development Ideas

When Jason asked me this week to prepare a post on staff training and development ideas, I have to admit – shocker – I wasn’t salivating over the opportunity.  The blog has talked a lot about organization learning, gamification, the importance of keeping things simple, and more, so wouldn’t it be a bit repetative? Yet that’s

3 Training Methods for Employees

Humor me for once, as we step outside organizational learning, outside training philosophy, and outside all other new age experimentalism and theory, and just look at the wide, general forms of training methods for employees there are. I spend a lot of time exploring the many flavors of organizational learning, of gamification and the like, and